With Jason "Hit me" Kidd at the helm, I'm suspicious of both this t-shirt clashing incident and the vendor tripping Curry. I ain't giving him the benefit of the doubt any more.
When he was standing pretty much at the top of the key on the sideline I was getting so annoyed. I probably wouldntve noticed him if it weren’t for all the previous fines and I feel like the fines are doing the opposite of stopping them lol
When I see Theo Pinson play as he is now it reminds me of how I used to play and it is frustrating and pisses me off that the NBA allows it. Not proud of it, I was known as Shaq on my local streetball court and went through a phase when I charged hard at everything. Big hard turns to my blindside, didn't care who was there. Charge right into the lane. Smash into the best offensive player on D while going for the ball, come what may. Limited offensive moves. So make no mistake about it. Theo Pinson knows what he's doing. He knows people will be injured. He knows his skillset is limited and this is how he can win. He knows people will confuse him for a teammate and pass him the ball, think twice about falling near the bench, etc. He will only be stopped by a stronger player and/or fearless players like Giannis, Gasol, Draymond, etc. Or by an obviously more skilled player with equal Type A like lbaka. He didn't intend to injure, but he certainly intends to show you that he doesn't care if you get hurt when he stands up on the bench. At least that's how used to play. But that was streetball. Eventually I got more moves, played w better players, played real basketball w refs. There's no doubt in my mind the NBA has some kind of edict coming down, telling the refs to let him run amok.
There it is. You see everybody, that’s what Theo Pinson does. Standing courtside with incorrect colors on purpose followed by a memorized 20 seconds of acting like the other team.
Absolutely wild to me that anyone good enough to be a professional player would deliberately try this crap, if I were his peer I'd certainly think less of him afterwards. Pat Bev levels of acknowledging that you need to be extra to make an impact
Every team does it. Let’s dispel this notion that this is an outlier situation going on with the Mavs. This is getting way too much attention because it’s the Warriors and the other two teams that the Mavs have played this postseason have complained about it because they lost and were being sore losers so they complained to the NBA about it.
Style changed. It was never a rule but teams started liking dark jerseys more and it kinda flipped. Home team always picks their jerseys before the game and let's the visitors know. Visiting team chooses accordingly. And for some reason home teams like their dark jerseys more, probably a "fashion" move more than anything tbh.
I was actually in what was literally a 10-year long argument over the concept of the home team always wearing a particular color. Frustratingly enough different professional sports took a different stances so sometimes at some level home team was supposed to wear white and sometimes at some levels the home team was supposed to wear dark.
I'm not one that says blindly follow the rules but just change dude. Someone's trying to do their job and they asked nicely. I doubt the ref personally cares what he wears
This is getting enough attention this post season that there will be an off-season rule change. If instead of fining a billionaire pennies, they give out technicals, it would end immediately.
Its worst. Its borderline bush league shit tactics. Like bruh. How desperate are you? To go this far and still lose makes him look even more like a clown
Theo's value to teams is his ability to create team chemistry and to amp up people during the game. And he's quite good at it--it's why he is still in the league. He's extremely vocal. Kidd called him their team MVP earlier this season.
How pissed would you be as a fan to have seats right behind a team’s bench for a WCF game but your view obstructed the whole fucking game. They should ask for a refund.
Thats what pissed me off. I watched the whole interaction and after seeing him smugly ask "Why?" I thought, hey that was a respectful honest interaction between a ref and a player.
It just seems so obvious. If you’re not suited up, you can’t be in the first bench row, and you can’t be standing on the sidelines. Only exception should be for the coach of either team.
That's a stupid move personally. He could've simply changed his shirt and had a good impression with the ref. I assue that is worth changing shirts for.
Game 2 Theo was wearing a white shirt and standing on the sideline. At one point he had his hand up yelling at his teammates or calling for the ball depending on who you ask. So the ref asked him to switch shirt colors so that the Warriors dont pass him the ball again thinking he's a on court teammate.
Last game a guy was wearing a white hoodie or something and steph errantly passed a ball to the guy thinking he was a warriors player.. not sure it was this same guy, but maybe. He was standing in front of the mavericks bench on the sideline
This is such an easy fix. Clearly Cuban thinks cheating is worth these little fines. So every single time the warriors cross half court, if Pinson is standing give the dallas bench a tech. EVERY SINGLE TIME. Pinson will change or sit down 1 minute into the game
Only Warriors allowed to wear white now apparently. They’ve declared themselves the protagonists of the NBA so they get the “pure” look. They’ve also got some plot armor where Draymond can’t get a 2nd tech so I guess they’re right.
Yeah you're right. They should really force Kerr and the Warriors coaches to take off their black pullover because they're too close to the color of the Mavericks jerseys. That and the blue warmups
Oh no, major worries. Man wearing white and standing on sidelines, completely within the rules. Love hearing Warriors fans screaming about how he should techs because of it, ignoring the fact Draymond should’ve been ejected and techs handed to him before the second half of game 2
Because he was last game. Dude was wearing similar color as the opposing team and standing right next to the court and curry passed it to him thinking it was hit teammate.
You do know players pass to people in their peripheral vision all the time. When you see highlights of sweet assists, that's often happening. It's pretty dumb that you'd want to make the game less exciting all so some d-rate player can pull bitch moves on the sideline.
The cut to him not changing his shirt after all of this is hilarious
Well the ref probably went and asked him to change it to see if he would and since he didn’t after the game I bet the nba fines dal again
I bet he would have changed if the ref bought him a shirt from Dan Flashes.
Kind of a douche move, the guy asked you so nicely
Getting swept is gonna be the payback for being a douche.
At some point in the second half I noticed he had a jean jacket on, I wonder if they came over and warned him one last time.
Theo is a national treasure lmfao
With Jason "Hit me" Kidd at the helm, I'm suspicious of both this t-shirt clashing incident and the vendor tripping Curry. I ain't giving him the benefit of the doubt any more.
If he changes shirts, Jason Kidd gonna spill a drink on Theo so he has to change back into the white one.
Jason Kidd would whisper "hit me" to Marquese Chriss while holding a cup of bleach.
Jason Kidd walking around with a cup of bleach, just in case
Shirtgate.
“From now on, decoys stay in the locker room until game time” ~Coach Kidd
this is the new basketball metagame
"NBA official offers gifts, memorabilia to player in exchange for loyalty"
Theo is probably getting paid less than what the fines are going to amount to
I think Cuban pays the fine
I wouldn't be suprised if cuban was paying them
I wonder if the league suspends him can Cuban still pay him? He might stop if his paycheck takes a hit and can't get reimbursed.
Player fines are always a percentage of their salary.
When he was standing pretty much at the top of the key on the sideline I was getting so annoyed. I probably wouldntve noticed him if it weren’t for all the previous fines and I feel like the fines are doing the opposite of stopping them lol
Cuban is footing the bill and standing there right next to the bench with the players lmao. Wouldn't be surprised if he's encouraging it.
They're team fines, not player fines. Theo isn't paying a cent in fines. If Theo was being fined personally, he wouldn't continue it.
Let's dispel with this fiction that Theo Pinson doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing.
He didn’t change, Davis is gonna throw out the most satisfying T of his life when the warriors start shooting that direction.
I love that they showed the whole exchange mic’d up to remove any doubt that Pinson knew what he was doing
When I see Theo Pinson play as he is now it reminds me of how I used to play and it is frustrating and pisses me off that the NBA allows it. Not proud of it, I was known as Shaq on my local streetball court and went through a phase when I charged hard at everything. Big hard turns to my blindside, didn't care who was there. Charge right into the lane. Smash into the best offensive player on D while going for the ball, come what may. Limited offensive moves. So make no mistake about it. Theo Pinson knows what he's doing. He knows people will be injured. He knows his skillset is limited and this is how he can win. He knows people will confuse him for a teammate and pass him the ball, think twice about falling near the bench, etc. He will only be stopped by a stronger player and/or fearless players like Giannis, Gasol, Draymond, etc. Or by an obviously more skilled player with equal Type A like lbaka. He didn't intend to injure, but he certainly intends to show you that he doesn't care if you get hurt when he stands up on the bench. At least that's how used to play. But that was streetball. Eventually I got more moves, played w better players, played real basketball w refs. There's no doubt in my mind the NBA has some kind of edict coming down, telling the refs to let him run amok.
That is a very random reference lol
unexpectedrubio
There it is. You see everybody, that’s what Theo Pinson does. Standing courtside with incorrect colors on purpose followed by a memorized 20 seconds of acting like the other team.
Absolutely wild to me that anyone good enough to be a professional player would deliberately try this crap, if I were his peer I'd certainly think less of him afterwards. Pat Bev levels of acknowledging that you need to be extra to make an impact
Every team does it. Let’s dispel this notion that this is an outlier situation going on with the Mavs. This is getting way too much attention because it’s the Warriors and the other two teams that the Mavs have played this postseason have complained about it because they lost and were being sore losers so they complained to the NBA about it.
Once and for all, we need to dispel with his fiction that Theo Pinson doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's foing
Can we once and for all though dispel with this fiction that Theo Pinson doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
Did He fool Curry in game 2? Got a free turnover from Curry passing to him.
Let's dispel with this fiction that anyone (outside of Dallas) knew who Theo Pinson was before all of this.
Whatever happen to the home team always wearing white.
Nike got rid of "home" and "away" jerseys
Changed so that teams could hand out shirts to fans to create a cool look in the arena and on TV.
Style changed. It was never a rule but teams started liking dark jerseys more and it kinda flipped. Home team always picks their jerseys before the game and let's the visitors know. Visiting team chooses accordingly. And for some reason home teams like their dark jerseys more, probably a "fashion" move more than anything tbh.
I thought the road team wore white.
Changed years ago G.
I think it makes sense for the away team to wear white, so the home team can wear unique jerseys in their color scheme for home fans.
I was actually in what was literally a 10-year long argument over the concept of the home team always wearing a particular color. Frustratingly enough different professional sports took a different stances so sometimes at some level home team was supposed to wear white and sometimes at some levels the home team was supposed to wear dark.
Had the audacity to ask why rofl
He was so smug to ask why. These lame antics have really soured me on the Mavs.
Watch Warriors break out The City jerseys next game and “white shirt guy” turns up in a bright yellow shirt.
He’s got a bag of shirts out back waiting to see what they come out in
This was the funniest mic moment I’ve ever seen
He a winner and putting in BIG MINUTES on the bench. Best corner 3 defensive rating
sportsman ship aside......dudes straight standing there and two dudes sitting right behind him forced to stare at his ass.
Imagine being dressed to play and having to stare at the ass of some G League player who no one’s even heard of.
Fucking clown
He's doing exactly what the Mavs have instructed him to do, dumbass
I'm not one that says blindly follow the rules but just change dude. Someone's trying to do their job and they asked nicely. I doubt the ref personally cares what he wears
That was a nice way of saying he was getting Teed up if he didn't stop fucking around. The Mavs bench was better about sitting in general this game.
He's obviously not breaking a rule or else the league wouldn't resort to a ref asking him nicely to change 20 minutes before the game.
I mean that’s one way to introduce yourself to the casual fans.
Maybe just don't let players who aren't dressed sit on the bench. This seems like such an easy fucking fix.
This is getting enough attention this post season that there will be an off-season rule change. If instead of fining a billionaire pennies, they give out technicals, it would end immediately.
The way to fix this is to make a rule saying if you aren’t suited up you have to sit in the second row of the bench
Anyone who uses “it’s not against the law/rules” to justify something, the absolute lowest bar that exists, is usually a dick.
Its worst. Its borderline bush league shit tactics. Like bruh. How desperate are you? To go this far and still lose makes him look even more like a clown
The thing is, if you want to say, "It's technically not against the rules," then what you're saying is we should be going technicalities.
It's actually insane that a benchwarmer is even up that close to the top where the coaches sit. They're usually at the end
That's what makes it clear that it's intentional
Theo's value to teams is his ability to create team chemistry and to amp up people during the game. And he's quite good at it--it's why he is still in the league. He's extremely vocal. Kidd called him their team MVP earlier this season.
The nerve of this fucking guy to play dumb lol
All fun and games until 1 technical point cost you the game
That's a very expensive cone with a shirt. How much is Cuban paying Pinson again?
He's a billionaire he can afford the $150k fines that have happened so far. Literally change for him.
All the lawyers on the thread saying "it's not against the rules" should watch John Oliver deconstruct Air Bud.
Shouldn't he get a tech?
How pissed would you be as a fan to have seats right behind a team’s bench for a WCF game but your view obstructed the whole fucking game. They should ask for a refund.
Lmao a tech for a t-shirt color is beyond ridiculous. This has never been a problem on this scale before.
Does this count as impartial officiating
Considering the league fined them like 100k I doubt it
That's a stretch
not crazy
And then didn’t do it. Corny as fuck.
Thats what pissed me off. I watched the whole interaction and after seeing him smugly ask "Why?" I thought, hey that was a respectful honest interaction between a ref and a player.
NBA working overtime trying to make the refs seem human and likable knowing that Netflix doc about to drop 👀
There’s a documentary ?! 👀
All Dallas has is reaching for straws at this point. Their big comeback game was supposed to be game three.
Their comeback game is nothing but a white tee
I would bullet pass to him on the bench nail him in the head and just shrug
Draymond’s time to shine… he’s already got 2 head shots off people in Warriors colors in these playoffs, time to add a 3rd.
Would love to see that
I was really hoping for this to happen. Maybe next game when they can spare a possession
Isn’t that the whole point, to bait something like that?
He is so obviously trying to use a dirty tactic
It just seems so obvious. If you’re not suited up, you can’t be in the first bench row, and you can’t be standing on the sidelines. Only exception should be for the coach of either team.
That's a stupid move personally. He could've simply changed his shirt and had a good impression with the ref. I assue that is worth changing shirts for.
He's a G leaguer, dude will never play in actual games, it wouldn't matter 🤣
lol this man doesn't sit the whole game 😂 honestly gotta respect it
Respect? Dude’s an asshole and puts players at risk by standing an inch behind the line the whole fucking game.
Did the same thing in NY so I dont think its a tactic but it is crazy how far up he is sometimes on the bench . you would think he is the coach
He should have changed it into a warriors jersey
I don’t understand,can anyone explain?
Game 2 Theo was wearing a white shirt and standing on the sideline. At one point he had his hand up yelling at his teammates or calling for the ball depending on who you ask. So the ref asked him to switch shirt colors so that the Warriors dont pass him the ball again thinking he's a on court teammate.
Last game a guy was wearing a white hoodie or something and steph errantly passed a ball to the guy thinking he was a warriors player.. not sure it was this same guy, but maybe. He was standing in front of the mavericks bench on the sideline
Teams going to start giving two-ways to lookalikes and have them wear the actual other team's jersey.
I will put a curse on this guy and his whole family. Just you wait.
This is obvious ref propoganda ahead of the documentary coming out lol
out of the loop, what doc? is it about donaghy?
This is such an easy fix. Clearly Cuban thinks cheating is worth these little fines. So every single time the warriors cross half court, if Pinson is standing give the dallas bench a tech. EVERY SINGLE TIME. Pinson will change or sit down 1 minute into the game
Fuck yeah. Kidd will make em shit the fuck down real fast
It ain’t cheating though.
That T gonna be funny later
why is this bum even on the sidelines if he's not even on rotation lmao
Lacob should buy Quinndairy Weatherspoon a Mavs jersey and have him just stand next to Kerr the entire game 4.
Respect the game of basketball, is that too much to ask?
It's the only way Theo Pinerider Pinson can impact a game.
It's been awhile since I've seen a team just deliberately cheating and playing dirty like this.
That’s Jason Kidd for you. We all remember him deliberately spilling a cup of water.
Theo: coach told me to do it.
A new tactic would be to not reveal what jerseys the home team will wear until game time.
Yeah. The stupid part is if after all of Pinson’s posturing, they still get swept.
Mavs are gonna make the players go back to wearing something "pRoFesSiOnAL" soon
if the mavericks need to resort to this bush league stuff to gain an "advantage", let them. Real champions take care of their business on the court.
Then he doesn't change and refs issue 0 techs. If there is no consequence then there is no reason to change
Same scenario as prior year playoffs here
Then give a tech to Pinson every time he stands up.
Who cares. Mavs are going to be eliminated in 2 more days anyways.
Unironiclly this
This guy is trash on and off the court.
C’mon man, a shirt color shouldn’t be getting this many people pissed off.
Dumbest “controversy” of all time.
Exactly. Seriously just change shirts, it's not hard
The right answer when Theo asked why was, “Because I fucking said so, that’s why.”
For the color of his shirt? Should fans behind the basket also not be allowed to wave foam fingers because it affects free throws?
I’ve noticed 11/12 guys on the Mavs bench are wearing blue. Confused as to why the team has not accidentally confused them for on-court players.
the one white shirt will stick out much more than the 11 blue ones.
I can not believe this is a story and nephews are actually mad that he is wearing a white t-shirt lmao
Only Warriors allowed to wear white now apparently. They’ve declared themselves the protagonists of the NBA so they get the “pure” look. They’ve also got some plot armor where Draymond can’t get a 2nd tech so I guess they’re right.
Doing all this to be down 3-0 at the end of the night. Sad.
Some of y’all get way too upset about this lmao.
Celtics and heat doing it but this one matters
This is a bad fucking look for the NBA for not recognizing simple sportsmanship conduct.
I agree, it’s bush league stuff
Should the NBA have fined Nick Nurse for wearing green in the bubble? 🤔
Yeah you're right. They should really force Kerr and the Warriors coaches to take off their black pullover because they're too close to the color of the Mavericks jerseys. That and the blue warmups
You’re so soft
I like the mavs organization and all, but this is an embarrassing look for Pinson.
I wonder which one of your statements is getting downvoted at this point I'm just confused
Oh no, major worries. Man wearing white and standing on sidelines, completely within the rules. Love hearing Warriors fans screaming about how he should techs because of it, ignoring the fact Draymond should’ve been ejected and techs handed to him before the second half of game 2
Oh come on man, it's within the rules.
Must be why they keep getting fined every game
If you don't love Theo Pinson, there is something wrong with you.
Can't stand seeing my Tar Heel getting dragged for repping the wrong colours
Seriously lol it's so funny
Who cares if he’s not interfering with game
Because he was last game. Dude was wearing similar color as the opposing team and standing right next to the court and curry passed it to him thinking it was hit teammate.
He did already for exactly this ya bum
I had no idea this was a soft spot for some of you guys, fascinating
crazy how pressed people are. I expected to just laugh and move on from it. Folks think he’s the antichrist lmao
If there's no rule fuck off lmao
I bet the refs have some leeway to make calls based on their judgment even if it is not on the rule books.
Someone should throw a cup of lamb’s blood on that white shirt. That’ll get him to change it
They ain’t changing that…nba’s pretty boy got put in a coffin lmao
If karma exists, then 3-0 is evidence.
Steph curry should just pay attention to who he is passing to. Is there a rule he can’t wear a white t shirt? Then kick rocks mark
You do know players pass to people in their peripheral vision all the time. When you see highlights of sweet assists, that's often happening. It's pretty dumb that you'd want to make the game less exciting all so some d-rate player can pull bitch moves on the sideline.
How come this was microphoned and recorded?
To show how nice the refs are? To back up the fine they are going to give Cuban?
jesus, bullock bricking EVERYTHING.
Defense also need to figure it out too, except for that Curry pass, it might cost the Mavs more than expected.
Imagine how much more fun it would be without all this chicanery
Another "hit me" move lol
mah man Theo :)
the most boring and overblown scandal since deflategate
Such a UNC player thing to do